The original idea for Raven’s Bread Ministries was to validate hermits’ attraction to solitude. Like everything these days, hermits exist on a wide spectrum and prefer a variety of identifiers: lovers of solitude, solitaries, contemplatives. (Karen Fredette likes to add “contemporary” as a qualifier, to make the lifestyle sound less antiquated.) “Solitude is not like protein,” said Heidi Haverkamp, a Raven’s Bread subscriber and author of “Holy Solitude: Lenten Reflections With Saints, Hermits, Prophets, and Rebels,” who describes herself as a part-time solitary. “We have a rock, a huge rock, that’s sticking out of the mountains,” Karen Fredette said.

Source: bd News24 November 28, 2020 23:26 UTC